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CVE-2023-53158: gitoxidelabs gix-transport OS Command Injection

CVSS: 4.1v3.1MediumDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53158GHSA-rrjw-j4m2-mf34RUSTSEC-2023-0064
Published 28-07-2025Last modified 28-07-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53158 is a medium (CVSS 4.1) OS Command Injection vulnerability in gitoxidelabs gix-transport. EPSS estimates a 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
16/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.19%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 28-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-07-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The gix-transport crate before 0.36.1 for Rust allows command execution via the "gix clone 'ssh://-oProxyCommand=open$IFS" substring. NOTE: this was discovered before CVE-2024-32884, a similar vulnerability (involving a username field) that is more difficult to exploit.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

8%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.17% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.19%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Crates.Io1 product
  • gix-transport< 0.36.1 | ≥ 0.0.0-0, < 0.36.1
Gitoxidelabs1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • rust-gix-transportAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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